Alabama Gives $47M To Same Company That Botched Obamacare Website

The State of Alabama chose the same company who oversaw the rollout of HealthCare.gov to upgrade the state’s financial management software, and is now experiencing similar results.

The State of Alabama Accounting and Resource System, STAARS, had not been updated for roughly a quarter century, prompting state government leaders in 2013 to pursue a new, highly automated system that they believed would make doing business with state government more efficient. At a cost of $47 million, the state hired to implement the upgrades a Canadian company called CGI Group, one of the largest information technology and business process services companies in the world. Read More.

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Alabama State Constitution of 1901

SECTION 4
Freedom of speech and press.
That no law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press; and any person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.